On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:31:09PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To those who replied .Many Thanks,you stirred the mud betwwen my ears:-)) > > > > The attachment was telling mutt it was an 'application octet-stream'. > > > > Adding a line > > > > application/octet-stream; /usr/bin/acroread '%s' etc etc > > > > in /etc/mailcap worked fine > > That's a little dangerous, isn't it? application/octet-stream can be > almost anything non-ASCII. > > It sounds like your suppliers are using a broken mailer.
Yes > > Tom > -- > Tom Cook > Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide > > "Intellectual freedom is not the freedom to believe anything, but the freedom to >believe only the truth." > - Dr. John Stott > > Get my GPG public key: >https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au Not much choice, my supplier uses WebMail and doesn't want to change and also doesn't need me, and I need to read his docs. I normally simply delete any mail with attachments if I am not expecting them from sources I know, even list mails. -- russ linux.conf.au 2003 The Australian Linux Technical Conference http://linux.conf.au/ 22-25 January 2003 in Perth, Western Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
